NASA creates buzz with ‘extraterrestrial’ announcement

By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 14:40 EDT
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The US space agency has created a buzz with its announcement of a press conference Thursday to discuss a scientific finding that relates to the hunt for life beyond the planet Earth.

“NASA will hold a news conference at 2 pm EST (1900 GMT) on Thursday, December 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life,” it said on its website.

Space enthusiasts and believers in alien life took to the blogosphere in a flurry of speculation over the potential meaning of the announcement, though NASA declined to elaborate further.

Those scheduled to speak included Mary Voytek, who heads NASA’s astrobiology program; Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a NASA astrobiology research fellow from the US Geological Survey; and Pamela Conrad, an astrobiologistat NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Astrobiology relates to the study of life in the universe, including its origin and evolution, where it is located and how it might survive in the future.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    *dons tinfoil hat and waits patiently* … told ya.

  • Anonymous

    Beam me up!!!

  • Anonymous

    So maybe those UFO sighting in NYC that were predicted earlier really mean something. I can’t wait for intelligent life to arrive on earth and fix all our problems for us!

  • ProgressiveInNewYork

    FEED ME!

  • WDsolstice

    Turns out, NASA found Jesus. And he’s reeeaaally mad.

  • Anonymous

    Well, I’m still searching for intelligent life on THIS planet.

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  • kiboshki

    Just how intelligent could life be on a planet created in only days?

  • Kill Bill

    Please help the mentally ill sociopathic political class. They are wrecking humanity.

  • kiboshki

    I meant: “in only six days”

    (grrr, editing posts has never worked for me!!!)

  • http://biscuits007.wordpress.com/ protobone

    NASA Astrobiology Program to announce “intelligent extraterrestrial life discovered. Sadly we’re still searching for intelligent life on our Homeworld.”

  • Anonymous

    bible thumper’s will not be amused…too bad…XD

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001767244953 Keegan King

    Hmm, this is a convenient distraction from the leaks.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QMPOO3PZFN7XV2XZKCGSXXR3WM Joe Somebody

    Or they are heading off the leaks about alien life.. the ones various countries have discussed and kept secret from us for all these years.

    I noticed Amazon dropped WikiLeaks.. wonder when we’ll have access to WikiLeaks again, or how we’ll find it.

  • Anonymous

    See Phil Plait’s blog at Badastronomy.com. These announcement are always a let down and the speculation they lead to is usually pretty silly. The announcement clearly says this relates “to the hunt” for extraterrestrial life. I doubt they would announce they’ve found evidence for any in a venue such as this.

  • http://voxxrocks.com/blog/?page_id=396 HIStory Indeed

    They are probably ready to admit to bacteria they found on some comets ass.

    ET won’t be along for at least another year or so if we’re still following the Wernher Von Braun story-line.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rambotheshark Robin Cooper

    I sure hope we fight the aliens in space so we do not have to fight them here.

  • Anonymous

    We are going to find out an alien life form dumped its prisoners on earth and left. The prisoners gathered together to form the republican party. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!

  • http://www.socialistcafe.com SocialistCafeDOTcom

    With economic meltdowns, poverty and starvation, global warming, resource wars, pollution of drinking water and all the other unchallenged problems we have the question should be whether or not there’s intelligent life on earth.

  • Anonymous

    NASA seems an unlikely source for ET disclosure, or even a preliminary step towards disclosure. When the big day finally comes, there will probably be a simultaneous announcement from the heads of states of leading world governments.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Martin/100000564476826 Gregory Martin

    They’ve picked up radio signals from another galaxy, and the music is really cool!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anthony-Wayne-Walker/1601553579 Anthony Wayne Walker

    NASA plans to announce that they have in fact have had contact with Extraterrestrials and the Extraterrestrials have made us an offer we can’t refuse. They have offered to take Teabaggers and right wing fundamentalist off of our hands. The ET’s said they planned to settle them on a planet with a climate much like Mississippi, (that will make them happy) they can take Fox news and all Fox news employees with them and Sarah Palin will be set up in some kind of goddess/madam president position and everybody can worship her feet. And on their new planet they can resume the roles that they are familiar with such as serfs, slaves and plantation owner. The only requirement is that said pilgrims should not have an IQ over 75. It’s my understanding that it’s some kind of lab experiment. Probably for some ones kid. One of the ET leaders said, quote “we are here to serve man”. Anyway sounds like a house cleaning to me, maybe there is a Santa.

  • Anonymous

    All this will be a wonderful thing to do after, there is peace in the world, we have solved the poverty problem here, after we have good and free education through college, after the infrastructure is modernized, after global climate change is reversed, after we have designed fusion power plants for endless cheap energy.

    Until then we have no business spending funds on something with no prospect of benefit in the foreseeable future.

  • Anonymous

    Expect more lies from our government. NASA will probably announce they’ve found some bacterial “lifeform” on a rock fragment or from the Mars Rover or something. Meantime, people all around the world are seeing unexplained air vehicles, Ebe’s, etc.
    I think when “disclosure” finally occurs it won’t be something the government announces. It’ll be “direct to human”, no government required.

  • Anonymous

    Of course they’ve been out there throughout our brief history, took one look, did some eavesdropping, and beat a hasty retreat.

  • Anonymous

    The timing is mighty suspicious. Looks much like the real purpose of this is to redirect attention away from Wikileaks and whatever the US has planned for it.

  • Schmice

    What are you talking about “something with no prospect of benefit in the foresseable future.” The aliens will be here To Serve Man.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Martin/100000564476826 Gregory Martin

    Burps on Titan, evidence of bacterial lifeforms. Whoopee.

  • Anonymous

    Not to be cynical, but…

    I’m guesing what they found is a lot closer to pre-life proteins or maybe, just maybe, evidence of life on Mars found by a rover, or from a comet. Not life itself, but evidence of life.

    I’d love for all the Christofascists to have to expand their minds as they were forced to, post- Copernicus. First heliocentricity, now panspermia. Big whoop. My guess though is that they’ll simply claim that, that too falls under the domain of the Sky Fairy.

    But that’s a best-case scenario. Worst case is this’ll be some lame stunt hatched by NASA in an attempt to regain relevance after that whole “ambassadors to the Muslim world” thingy…

  • Anonymous

    they are either with us, or against us.

  • Anonymous

    Just a diversion. Smoke and mirrors again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mdetrano Marc DeTrano

    NASA: We have contacted aliens, and they are coming To Serve Man.

    Wikileaks: To Serve Man…. it’s a cookbook!!

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure they’ll move away as fast as the speed of light when we attack them with our water balloons.

  • Anonymous

    wake me up when they trot out the grays

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  • Knot

    CRAPCAKES!!! My covers been blown;~! Time to dust off the oscillation overthruster and get the heck out of Dodge! I tried to save you from the Red Lectroids but it’s too dangerous to stay while their leader Cheney is still around. Well, bye.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Bailey/1083393808 Peter Bailey

    This time it’ll be unexplained-by-any-other-hypothesis spectral evidence of gaseous phenomena indicating something alive somewhere, and the CFs will put their head firmly back in the that dark place between their buttocks they know so well.

  • Anonymous

    Let me guess…they found a pyramid on the moon…and it’s ticking…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Bailey/1083393808 Peter Bailey

    They can take W and EvilDick with them.

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  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    This could be THE ONE! On the Eastern slope of Mt. Palomar… a most unusual turd was discovered. It was unique because it was shaped in a spiral…had an unusual color…and put out the scent of Lilacs. While analyzing this, another was found shaped like the Crab Nebula…
    (It turned out to be from a diarrhea-tic bear.)

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    I’ll bring that up at the next meeting, my oversight, thank you for reminding me.

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    ‘Gray’s comin’ soon boss!’

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    Great play!

  • http://SALON WHITE DRAGON

    Mock if you will….. but prevailing theory is that Dark Matter is very near to the chemical consistency of the common fart. (south european)

  • d f bizzle

    Have a good trip, thanks anyway!

  • d f bizzle

    I thought it was an old Twillight Zone episode

  • d f bizzle

    NO!

  • d f bizzle

    There is….guess what, its my neighbor Jeff, that dude is smaaaart.

  • Anonymous

    Awright now, who got an Interoceter kit in the mail, and was stupid enough to build it?
    Fess up now

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    Welcome to the Twilight Zone.

  • Anonymous

    I agree, but the Xtofascists will still deny it.

  • Anonymous

    I miss that show. I wonder if the ‘V’ will come back for another season?

  • Anonymous

    This could just be to get everyone anxious. People buy more stuff when they’re anxious, and NASA could release their new extraterrestrial plushie during the press conference, just in time to get one for your family members for Christmas!

    Of course the plushies themselves are actually the aliens, who are extraordinarily talented at holding their breath and looking fuzzy. Once everyone in the country has one, they will begin the invasion, emerging from boxes wrapped in ribbon and tissue paper all over the world. Humanity’s fatal flaw will be our strange mammalian attraction to fuzzy things with giant heads. At least our race’s passing will be, as they say, super-de-dooper cute.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gregory-Martin/100000564476826 Gregory Martin

    Dark matter isn’t made up of farts, but you’re getting close.

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  • Anonymous

    And if you can make it to the top of the pyramid in sixty seconds or less, Dick Clark will give your asteroids a wedgie.

  • Anonymous

    Damn, the Scientologists were right. Oh well, all hail Xenu!

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    I really thought you were going to end you great post with …..FOX NEWS.

  • Anonymous

    lol I take it you never seen The Outer Limits? It was a great show for sci fi buffs. I wish the sci fi channel would give it a regular time slot. The Outer Limits is like the Twilight Zone but of the 90s.

    I never realized it until I copied and paste and read the intro (above post) to The Outer Limits that the message can pretty much apply to all media as well.

    Here is a video galary to The Outer Limits (TV Series 1995–2002) version.
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    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112111/videogallery

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    As I have always said . anyone that thinks we arer the only life form is just on some kind of dumb ego trip. We have done more damage to this planet and its surrounding space then any other creature . But we are so smart . right !

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